My opinion is that to be a complete fan of something, you have to understand its history. How many people here think the characters in Friendship is Magic are original? A lot of the characters from that were either inspired or copied from previous generations. Check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_rIAkb_v8 Can anyone guess which character inspired Rainbow Dash from FiM? Anyone see a couple of “FiM” characters in that? I grew up watching the first generations, and they were very different from what we have now, but if not for them, we wouldn’t have FiM, so I feel a lot of appreciation is due to where various parts of it began. Now then, aside from the inspiration for Rainbow Dash’s personality, did you know she appeared literally in G3? Or that Scootaloo, Sweetie Bell, and more as well did?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo13WMTQJ84 G2 didn’t have anything taken for FiM that I know of, or maybe for a stretch, Mrs. Faust took the lessons learned from it and made the education more literal. G2 was all about lessons too, and they often ended the episodes with what they learned, though it wasn’t quite as “thrown.” It had things like, “I know now I shouldn’t assume things about my friends,” or, “I know gossiping is always wrong now.” Whereas in FiM, “The lesson I learned today is…” My favorite is G2, because it reflects real life, using only earth ponies thrust in situations humans often were in, like breaking something and having to pay for it and dating. Loving FiM is wonderful, but I wish more people would look to the root, or shall I say, heart of the show. I know I’m just older so had the older generations when I grew up whereas a lot of you didn’t, but still, access to the history of MLP is fairly common to find. I’ve been a MLP fan for many years before FiM came out, and I just wanted to share a little history.
